Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-09-17
officers endeavoring to arrest them In the
fight one officer was wounded, one
desperate killed and two wounded.

officers endeavoring to arrest them In the
fight one officer was wounded, one,
desperate killed and two wounded.
The statement Of the public debt Of.
the Canadian dominion just issued by the.
finance department shows the total NET debt
on Aug. 81 to have been $228, 494, 461, an in
crease since June 80 OF q, 46z, 500.
DR.. st. John, Janitor Del, and two.
schooner captains have been indicted at
Chicago for aiding in the escape Of w. j.
McGarigle from the custody of the Cook
county sheriff.
j. G. Harris was shot twice in the.
head in the Bernick hotel at Cambridge,
Ohio. With two bullets in his brain, he
staggered to the depot and boarded a train
for Caldwell, some miles south, which place
he reached in an exhausted condition.
harris says that q beautiful young girl
named Lou Morrison did the shooting, be-
cause he would not consent to marry her
He will probably die.
Thirty residences and numerous bus
mess houses at Newburg, Ontario, were de-
stroyed by fire. One man was fatally
burned. Loss $250000, insurance un-
known.
The elevator at Plymouth, Ohio, a
town on the B. 6 o. R. r., near Mansfield,
qurned with 6 1000 bushels Of wheat.
IN THE EAST.
A furious storm visited various por-
tions of the East, on the 18th. It was
terrific down the Merrimack Valley, Mass,
and passengers on a Boston bound railway
train we're partially paralyzed by lightning.
At Haverhill several houses were struck
and near Bedford a house burned by
lightning. In the southern part of Otsego
County. N. y, q fierce cyclone laid waste q
large territory, tearing down houses,
schoolhouses and barns, and tearing others
from their foundation. Three men and a
woman and child were killed.
At Boston, Mass, an explosion oc-
Cured on a schooner loaded with Naptha
and the vessel burned, together with a
bridge and factory. One man was burned
to death on the schooner, the steward
jumped overheard and was drowned. The
captain and mate were SO badly burned
they were taken to the hospital. -Four
longshoremen were more or less burned.
Loss $4,000.
A special to the Boston Herald from
Concord, N. H., says: s.Manchester has
developed a miniature reproduction of the
London scandal exposed by the Pail Mall
Gazette. The persons implicated embrace
some we'll known business and professional
men and four young girls, whose ages
range from IL to 16 years. It is probable
that civil or criminal suits may be com
menced'
At New York Mrs. Grace Dalton
Terry has brought suit for absolute divorce
against her husband, Antonio E. Terry.
The defendant is son of the late Cuban
planter, Don Thomas Terry, who, when he
died, left an estate worth $50, 100000, to be
divided among seven children. The hus
band is said to spend too much time with
actresses
At Shenandoah, Pa, Henry Brecker,
aged seventy, was shot and fatally wounded
by Nicholas Knebels. The latter had been
daughte' and was ordered out Of the
house, but refused to 60, and during q
sc ahe Brecker was shot.
suit has been commenced in the SUI.
prcnie court of New York for the recovery
q IS. 100, 600 by John H. Powell and Others
against the Brush Electric company OF
CloV0iduu, anu me bFuSQ-SW2n El6ctTlC
Light company of New England
The Hotel Arlington, at Saegertown,
Pa, erected last spring at "a cost of $25, 600
was entirely destroyed by fire. Harding &
Jetferys were the lessees and lost all their
furniture, valued at $1,000; they are fully
insured.
The gross earnings of the New York
Central & Hudson River Railroad Com
pany and it's leas ed lines for August, 1881
were So, 49,, 800; for 1886, $29S0,793; in
crease, 1851, 347.
At Patterson, N. j., Joseph Jack
sons silk mill and Grants locomotive
works were burned. Loss $15O,OOO. Sig
hundred men are thrown out of employ
ment.
At Lewiston, Pa, the new round
house with locomotives and tanks of the
Pennsylvania R. R., was destroyed by fire.
Loss $65, 900.
c. P. Ide, a Sunday school boy OF
Glens Falls, N. Y, embezzled $4,000 from
the bank of which he was bookkeeper